In the fall issue of Democracy
Review of Left in Dark Times:
A Stand against the New Barbarism
IN 2007, a few months before the French presidential election, a gleeful Nicholas Sarkozy phoned Bernard-Henri Lévy.
André Glucksmann, who had been Lévy’s comrade in the struggles against totalitarianism since the seventies, had announced in Le Monde that he had had it with the left. He was crossing the line and backing Sarkozy, the candidate of the right he had once
opposed.
Sarkozy quickly exhausted his limited supply of small talk and got down to business.
‘What about you?’ he asked Lévy.
‘When are you going to write your little article for me? Huh, when? Because Glucksmann is fine. But you … you, after all, are my friend.’
Lévy was embarrassed. He had indeed known Sarkozy for years, and had briefed him before a famous television debate with Tariq Ramadan, the leading…
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